When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.
-- James Weldon Johnson
   
James Weldon Johnson   Name:
James Weldon Johnson
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 17, 1871
Death:
June 26, 1938
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